Friday, January 28, 2005

The most powerful technology A9.com invented for Yellow Pages is "Block View" which brings the Yellow Pages to life by showing a street view of millions of businesses and their surroundings. Using trucks equipped with digital cameras, global positioning system (GPS) receivers, and proprietary software and hardware, A9.com drove tens of thousands of miles capturing images and matching them with businesses and the way they look from the street.

Type in your search query : you can not only see a picture of the business, you can also walk up and down the block, and see pictures of other businesses on the same street. I love the way they have integrated the images and GPS data to create a seamless walk-down-the-street experience. Looks luverly.

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Reuben Abraham made a short post regarding Zoo Station winning the Indiblog award for best group blog for 2004, signing off appropriately enough with a trivia question (click on the link above to see the question in the post). The answer to the question? Oh well, let us just say it is around here somewhere. Google around, and you too can find it :)

So, it seems like Zoo Station did win the Indiblog award for best group blog. It's pretty cool to win a blogging prize by popular choice just a month after ABC News crowned bloggers as their choice for People of the Year. First, thanks to all our readers who voted for this blog. Second, thanks to all the rest of the team at ZS who have made this blog mighty readable. Congratulations are also in order for frequent ZS commenter and friend, Atanu Dey and the Deeshaa/RISC blog, which won the award for Indiblog of the Year. Thanks go out to Indiblog nominee Rajesh Jain, who convinced me to start Zoo Station way back in 2003.

Has this blog moved? Where to?

In a word, yes. To the "Ask the Delphic Oracle" blog. Delfikorakle is my (Anand Manikutty's) old, now partially deconstructed, weblog.

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I have been blogging since around 2002 when the blogging phenomenon was just starting to take off. A few years into blogging, I found that thoughtful posts and commenting was exactly my thing, and so I took up blogging with enthusiasm. I later joined the group blog Zoo Station. Our blog Zoo Station won the IndieBloggies Award in 2004. I no longer blog there, and have since moved to the group blog "Ask the Delphic Oracle".

Now that blogging is mainstream, it seems like a good idea to keep around a time capsule of previous posts, and so Delfikorakle continues to be maintained. I started out on Delfikorakle making posts on technology and computer science since those were my chief research interests. Please note that my research interests have now shifted to include organization behavior, technology management and strategic management. View my new blog for recent posts. It is available at : http://askthedelphicoracle.blogspot.com/